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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.

Nadine Gordimer

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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn’t speak publicly.
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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there’s another force from inside battling to make us something else.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
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If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
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